Variations that I studied actually occurring in a game.
Rarest things in chess.
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Losing to someone with a rating under 100
Earthquake
Predicting your opponents next move correctly.
triple check
Aug 23, 2021
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#8
As white, players at my level playing anything in the 2... d6 Open Sicilian besides the Bowdler Attack.
Hexapled pawns
Aug 24, 2021
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#10
I think bishop and knight vs. king (no pawns) endgame is quite rare...
Happened to me one time in I guess over 14,000 games (including lichess account)...
I actually won this endgame vs. stockfish one time but I still don't really know how to do it, it was lucky...
Fortresses and stalemates at gm leverl ig
injurious_noob wrote:
Check mate in very first move 😜
dude thats not rare its impossible
Aug 26, 2021
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#16
Thats (pretty much) already been said. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/rarest-things-in-chess?newCommentCount=1&page=1#comment-62887757
Beat stockfish 14 wihout any bot
Aug 28, 2021
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#19
DarkNightK1 wrote:
Fortresses and stalemates at gm leverl ig
they do happen in gm games sometimes
What are some of the rarest things in chess? I will name some:
Hikaru Nakamura spending more than 10 seconds on a move in online chess
OTB chess tournaments happening in Delaware, USA
Managing to beat Magnus Carlsen
Please list of some more rare things.